Chauncey Wright Quotes
Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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I'm a better polemicist in prose.
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I carry a lot of muscle easily.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.
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You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.
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I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
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In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.
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The government's job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.
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Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
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It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.
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You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.
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Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.
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A first love always occupies a special place.
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You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
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Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
